28. As for peres – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
29. Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom.
30. And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
31. (6:1) So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.